Emergent Modelling and the Client

• The client does the work.
• The client should be given a dictionary to look up terms and definitions before representing them in clay.
• The client handles all the forms and significances.
• The client sits on one side of the table and the facilitator sits opposite or to the side as per the client's instructions (see Clean Start).
• The client should be trained as to what is expected of him in Emergent Modelling including the meaning of 'represent'.
• The client must be satisfied that the information they give and their representations are true expressions of their predicament.

A major mistake is to fail to get the client to do it.

The client under the facilitator’s direction but with no coaching as to how, makes the required forms with labels. The facilitator does not suggest subjects, colours or forms.

With terms on which the client has no definition at all, the client can look them up in the dictionary or the facilitator can look them up for him.

The client may represent their issue and any related forms in clay, he may work on it as long as he likes. Just make sure he labels every thing. The client may also put aside or re-use the clay of objects already made.

The client may have to represent their issue over and over again; they may protest how it can’t be done, they may squirm and even try to declare it’s impossible, the facilitator acknowledges all this and simply gets the client to continue.

Etymology: 1325-75; Middle English representen < Middle French representer < Latin repraesentāre - to bring about immediately, make present

• i. to bring into presence
• ii. to bring clearly and distinctly before the mind
• iii. describe or portray in a particular way
• iv. have a particular signification
• v. stand for, be a symbol or embodiment of

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